# Write a story, one sentence at a time! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131 "2007-02-21T20:20:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/461 "2007-03-26T22:59:33Z")
The squad leader, who was obviously lost, said “Mea culpa.” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/462 "2007-03-26T23:40:51Z")
There being no funny [Shin Bet](http://www.torahtots.com/alefbet/gifs/shinpaint.gif) pictures, the Rabbi contemplated the alephbet while he considered the next plot device in a long and mangled tale. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/463 "2007-03-27T14:01:02Z")
At that very moment in Shanghai, Jimmy Wu put down his ice-cold glass of beer and stared thoughtfully out the window. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/464 "2007-03-27T14:32:24Z")
Jimmy Who? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/465 "2007-03-27T15:07:12Z")
The ice-cold glass of beer, piqued at being ignored, tipped over and spilled its contents into Wu’s lap. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/466 "2007-03-27T15:22:28Z")
“Dammit!” said Wu, mopping ineffectually at his lap with a handful of paper napkins. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/467 "2007-03-27T16:09:16Z")
“What the…?!”, Jimmy exclaimed as he watched the “beer” begin to eat through his pants like battery acid and hydrochloric and muriatic acid, the three combined. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/468 "2007-03-27T17:56:44Z")
The beer bubbled with goulish giggles. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/469 "2007-03-27T18:00:49Z")
Wu hurriedly took off his pants and flung them to the floor, oblivious to the stares and giggles of other bar patrons as the sentient beer devoured his pants. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/470 "2007-03-27T21:52:39Z")
The beer then oozed its way towards and out the door in search of like lifeforms. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/471 "2007-03-27T22:30:48Z")
“…but a being that knows right from wrong should obey the Noahyde mitzvote…” [Rabbi Yehudah ben Bezalel Levai](http://members.shaw.ca/david.p.z.888/star_wars/pics/obi-wan_kenobi.jpg) paused; a bottle of Manschevitz on the dashboard of the Mitzvah Tank began to glow…“I sense a disturbance in the tsvingen.” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/472 "2007-03-27T23:18:47Z")
The glow turned from deep purple to bright chartruese and the Rabbi\* jumped back in horror. \*somehow I knew what the picture would be before I clicked it… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/473 "2007-03-27T23:29:54Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] somehow I knew what the picture would be before I clicked it… [/QUOTE] From our historical archives. (Editorial commentary does not count as a sentence.) Rabbi Yehudah ben Bezalel Levai knew this could be the work of only one rodent… [Goyisch Squirrel!](http://www.scarysquirrel.org/special/profiles/carlings/peteskwerl.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/474 "2007-03-27T23:41:32Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Rabbi Yehudah ben Bezalel Levai knew this could be the work of only one rodent… [Goyisch Squirrel!](http://www.scarysquirrel.org/special/profiles/carlings/peteskwerl.jpg) [/QUOTE] The Rabbi knew there was only [one individual](http://www.classictoons.net/popup_image.php?pID=94&osCsid=f697f0369ce3e0f0707b9e0119f137c4) who could salvage things now. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/475 "2007-03-28T00:05:15Z")
Quickly, to the [Mitzvah Phone!](http://www.privateline.com/PCS/images/hellochief.gif) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/476 "2007-03-28T00:46:34Z")
Joshie looked at the Rabbi and said “Missed it by that much.” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/477 "2007-03-28T01:14:18Z")
“Missed Wu, er, Who?” asked the Rabbi. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/478 "2007-03-28T01:23:15Z")
“The beer,” explained Joshie “it left with the Heavy Malaga just before you called the special agent” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/479 "2007-03-28T01:37:44Z")
“How do all of those people in Israel know what happened with my beer?” Wu wondered, far off in Shanghai. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time/393131/480 "2007-03-28T01:50:15Z")
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